Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows

Musicology, University of California, Berkeley - A Second Refuge: French Opera and the Huguenot Migration, 1685-1713

Cultural Anthropology, New York University - Between Two Monsters: Underground Music and Visual Culture in Twenty-First Century Uruguay

Anthropology, Stanford University - Crude Fictions: Oil and the Making of Modularity in Equatorial Guinea

History, Stanford University - The Chinese Must Go: Immigration, Deportation, and Violence in the American West, 1882-1892

History, University of Chicago - Friendship of the Peoples: Soviet-Czechoslovak Social and Cultural Contacts from the Battle for Prague to the Prague Spring, 1945-1969

Comparative Literature, Yale University - In the Spirit of Bandung: On the Politics and Poetics of Linguistic Choice in the Comparative Literatures of Indonesia, Egypt, and Senegal, 1905-Present

Art history, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh - On Causal Inferences in the Sciences and Humanities

History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Forests Without Birds: Ecology and Health on the Rubber Plantations of French Colonial Vietnam, 1890-1954

Anthropology, University of Virginia - Fugitive Slaves and Community Creation in Nineteenth-Century Kenya: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Watoro Villages

Classics, Stanford University - To Separate the Act From the Thing: Technologies of Value in the Ancient Mediterranean

History, Stanford University - “Plot’s Commonwealth”: The Circulation of Manuscripts and the Practice of Politics in Early Stuart England, 1614-1640

Film Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Banned Films: Soviet Cinema under Stalin and the Failure of Power

English, Princeton University - “Feeling Pleasures”: The Sense of Touch in the English Renaissance

Political Science, Duke University - The Politics of Incommensurability: A Value Pluralist Approach to Liberalism and Democracy

Music, Princeton University - Generative Musical Grammar: A Minimalist Approach

History, Johns Hopkins University - Clerical Celibacy, Sex, and Marriage in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France

History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - France’s Concrete Frontier: Gender, Family, and Social Policy in High-Rise Communities, 1945-1975

History, Northwestern University - Producing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Society in Early Modern London

American Studies, Yale University - Offshore Onshore: Foreign-Trade Zones on U.S. Soil, 1846-1989

History, Columbia University - The Making of the Communist Enemy: The Catholic Church and the Ideological Origins of the Cold War, 1929-1949

History, Columbia University - Corresponding Republics: Private Letters and Patriot Societies in the American, Dutch, and French Revolutions, ca. 1765-92

Sociology, University of California, Irvine - Pharmacists of Conscience: Ethical Decision-Making Across Legal, Political, and Organizational Environments

History, George Washington University - Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742

German Literature and Language, Princeton University - Air, Ether, Atmosphere: A Cultural History of Fluids around 1900

Society and Environment, University of California, Berkeley - The Resurgence of Land Reform Policy and Rural Social Movements in Indonesia

Comparative Literature, Yale University - Literary Imaginings of Socialist Internationalism in the Age of the Three Worlds

History of Science and Architecture, Harvard University - After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century

German Studies, University of Pittsburgh - Subjectivity Regained? German-Language Writing from Eastern Europe and the Balkans through an East-West Gaze

English, University of Virginia - Ridiculous Modernism: Nonsense and New Literature, 1900-1950

Political Science, Princeton University - Liberty and Self-Government: Richard Price and the 1776 British Freedom Debate

English, University of Chicago - Quarrels with Ourselves: Just Realism in Contemporary Poetry

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago - Sectarian Scripture: The Qur’an and its Dogmatic Re-Articulation of the Aramaic Gospel Traditions in the Fractured Late Antique Near East

History, Northwestern University - Harvesting the Woods, Harnessing the Waters: An Environmental History of the Colonial Connecticut Valley

Cultural Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center - Territory Matters in the Triple Frontera: Ciudad del Este, Itaipú, and the Paraguayan State

Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University - Last Rights: Forensic Science, Human Rights, and the Victims of Atrocity

History of Art, University of Pennsylvania - Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse of Peale's Butterflies, Heade's Hummingbirds, Blaschka's Flowers, and Sandow's Body

STS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - The Rules of Perception: American Color Science, 1858-1931

History, Princeton University - Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire's Edge, Russia and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941

Philosophy, Yale University - Grasping the Infinite: Descartes’ “Medtations” as an Exercise in Transcendental Philosophy

English, University of Notre Dame - Mind, Body, Soul, and Self in the Alfredian Translations

History, University of California, Berkeley - Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Soviet Union

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University - Forging Equivalences: Dara Shikoh, Persian Translations of Indic Works, and the Mughal Genealogies of Hinduism

History of American Civilization, Harvard University - The American System in the World Depression, 1929-1945

Geography, University of Arizona - Governance Without Government: Explaining Order in a Brazilian Favela

English, Harvard University - The Afterlife of Samuel Johnson, LLD: Literature and Immortality in Britain, 1709-1791

Comparative Literature (Eng/Ger/Fr), University of California, Berkeley - “Sweet Science”: Poetic Biologies Around 1800

American Studies, Yale University - Performing Redress: Military Sexual Slavery and the Transpacific Politics of Memory

Anthropology, Duke University - Crusading Faith: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana

Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz - At the Forest Edges of the City. An Ethnography of Racial Geographies and National Belonging in Berlin and its Countryside

History of Architecture, Cornell University - First Spaces of Colonialism: Architecture, Space and Society of the Ships of the Dutch East India Company, 1740-1795

History, Stanford University - Historicizing Sexual Violence in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, 1848-1927

History, University of California, Irvine - Madness, Mining, and Migration in the Pacific World, 1848-1900

Classics, Stanford University - Scales of Connectivity in the Late Antique Landscape: Economic Networks in Southern Italy

History, Georgetown University - Nuclear Fallout, the Politics of Risk, and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis, 1945-1963

History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Pleasure, Power, and the Pursuit of Communism: State-Sponsored Youth Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1968

History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Targeting Kwajalein: U.S. Military Imperialism in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War

Political Science, University of Notre Dame - Engendering State Institutions: State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America

History of Art, New York University - Broken Outlines and Structural Exhibitionism: The Flying Buttress as Aesthetic Choice in Medieval France

English, University of Pennsylvania - Inside Voices of the English Renaissance

English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Alienable Rights: Negative Figures of U.S. Citizenship, 1790-1868

History, Columbia University - Tropical Medicine, German Imperialism, and the Local History of Sleeping Sickness at Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, 1898-1914

English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University - The Writing of Malaria, 1865-1935

Comparative Literature (Classics), Princeton University - The Rhetoric and Ethics of Supplication from Vergil to Milton

Geography, University of California, Berkeley - The Caribbean in the World: Imaginative Geographies in the Independence Age

History, University of Delaware - The Right to Design: Disability and Access in the United States, 1945-1990

History, Columbia University - The Legal Philosophies of Religious Zionism, 1937-1967

History, Harvard University - Constructing the Chinese: Paleoanthropology and Anthropology in the Chinese Frontier, 1920-1951

Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles - Colonial Migration and Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea